But Not for Me

Ariane's engagement to Frank Muldane was, quite frankly, a matter of convenience - convenience for Ariane and her family, that is. For the Dobson family business was about to be taken over by the Muldanes, and Ariane's mother had pointed out that if by some lucky chance her daughter were to marry into the rival family it would make the future easier and brighter for them all; Anyway, Frank was very nice, he genuinely loved her, and Ariane thought that for her parents' sake she could manage to go through with it. Certainly it was a more attractive prospect than marrying Frank's dark, disapproving older brother Harvey! But to her dismay, as she got to know the Muldanes better, it was with Harvey that Ariane found herself falling in love - Harvey, who had not only made it plain from the start what he thought of her, but who was himself in love, deeply and irrevocably, with the glamorous actress Marta Roma.